Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 23 Satan Blair
Our first Prime Minister, or First Lord of the Treasury, was Robert Walpole in the earlyish 1700s. His motto was “every man has his price and I know it bar a few” and some of [more…]
Corruption
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 7)
By this point the pattern is visible. The remaining question is why it is allowed to continue. The answer is not that everyone inside the system is secretly coordinating. It is simpler than that. The [more…]
Politics
Labour’s bad boys – Part 22 Cap’n Bob
Ian Robert Maxwell (NHRN) was born 1923 in Czechoslovakia as Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch. His birthplace is now Solotvyno in Ukraine. I believe it was Private Eye who christened him Cap’n Bob presumably based [more…]
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 6)
HS2 is one project. What happens everywhere else, across the hundreds of councils and public bodies that spend the rest of the £1.23 trillion, is in many ways worse. In the financial year 2022–23, 467 [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 21 Dan Norris
Dan Norris was the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010. In 2021 he was elected as Mayor of the West of England until his arrest in April 2025. In the 2024 GE he defeated [more…]
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 5)
In July 2017, four joint ventures were awarded HS2 civil contracts worth a combined £6.6 billion. The original structure was a target-cost contract with a pain/gain share, meaning that if costs overran, the contractor would [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 4)
The revolving door describes one route through the system. There is another. Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 20 Rushanara Ali
Another import from the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. We’ve already had an article on Tulip Siddiq and an honourable mention for Baroness Uddin in the expenses scandal, now we turn our attention to Rushanara Ali. [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 3)
In each of the 438 quangos described in Part 2, someone decides who sits on the boards, who chairs the committees, and who approves the contracts. Look closely at who those people are and a [more…]